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Announcing plans for a Guide to the History of Economics 
 
Over the next several months we as editors will arrange for the  
preparation of a Guide to the History of Economics to be published  
by Blackwell's and intended not simply for our fellow historians but,  
in the first place, for mainstream practitioners of the economics  
discipline. In constructing the Guide we will not hold to the  
conventional temporal sequence, focus on great personages, or attend  
to schools of economic thought.  Rather we will identify a range of  
questions that are today exercising the contemporary mainstream  
discipline and subdisciplines and attempt to demonstrate that an  
historical treatment of these questions  may be illuminating to all  
concerned.  If we are successful the Guide should be useful in  
classes and research programs across the discipline. 
 
We hope in this way to construct a bridge between the history of  
economics and the larger economics profession in which it is  
embedded.  We expect also to identify a range of exciting research  
topics of present day relevance on which historians of economics may  
engage themselves in this project or elsewhere. 
 
We invite our colleagues to consider joining us in this endeavor.  If  
you are interested please contact us by email or other means with  
suggestions and comments.  We would like to remain in close and  
continuing contact with contributors to the Guide and to bring them  
together here at Duke and at various professional meetings that will  
take place over the next couple of years. 
 
Neil B. DeMarchi  
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Craufurd D. W. Goodwin  
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E. Roy Weintraub  
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